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Show PAGE FOUR PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1934 : The Herald Ever? Afternoon except Saturday, and Sunday Morning Published by the Herald Corporation. 50 South First West street, Provo Utah. Entered as second-class ' matter at the postof f ice In Provo, Utah, under the act of March 8, 1879. v- Gilroan. Nicoll & Ruthman, National Advertisings-representatives, Advertisings-representatives, New York, San Francisco, Detroit, . Boston, Los Angeles. Seattle, Chicago. Member United Press, N. E. A. Service, Western Features and the Scripps League of Newspapers. Subscription terms by carrier in Utah county, : 50 cents the month; $2.75 for six months. In advance; 15.00 the year, in advance; by mail in Utah County, In advance, $4.50; outside Utah County, $5.00. m ' "Proclaim Liberty (krongrh all the land" Liberty Bell Utility Holding Company Fees- , We -have heard quite a little in Utah lately about the so-called "management" and "supervisory" fees which eastern east-ern holding companies like to collect from their subsidiaries. subsidiar-ies. In the neighboring state of Washington, the department depart-ment of public works is attempting to knock out these fees. You may have heard before how this business works: Suppose there is a little power company. Let's call it the Suburban company. Along comes a holding company and buys up control of the Suburban's stock. Still a third holding company owns control of the first holding firm's stock. In some instances there are four or five holding companies in a chain. "' In. theory, each holding company must live on the dividends divi-dends it receives on the stock it owns. In practice, it doesn't work out quite that way. Since it owns control of the stock of the Suburban, which is the operating company and does all of the earning, the holding company demands "management fees." In some instances, the holding companies have taken 10 per cent of the earnings of the actual operating compan- AVU All . A.WVJa s .1 Let's examine the meaning and the result of this practice. prac-tice. In theory, the holding company is supposed to perform per-form some valuable service for .its subsidiary. Actually it seldom does anything of the kind. The Suburban company got along fine before it heard of the holding company. Its management is competent. It doesn't need any "management." "man-agement." Hence, every penny it pays for useless and often bad "management" from the holding company is taken away from the small stockholders or from the customers of the Suburban company in higher rates. Utility holding companies have big offices in 'New York. They buy politicians. They pay fat salaries to officials. They have -even dipped their dirty hands into the public schools. They finance these activities thru the "fees" they steal from their subsidiaries. JL J JJC f 3J5 . A holding company may be useful to an investor, if it is an honest holding company. But it is of no value whatever what-ever to the operating company upon which it lives as a parasite. It is an unnecessary burden to the utility customer cus-tomer and the minority stockholder. There seems to be a logical place for the holding company, com-pany, so long as it is not permitted to rob the subsidiary, the minority stockholder, and the utility customer. The way to stop this robbery is. to deny holding companies the right to collect fees for services that are never performed, for "management" that exists only in the imagination. Good public policy demands that this beVdone, and the state of Washington is pointing the way to other western states in undertaking the job. 5 : - TESTS WON DAM CEMENT BERKELEY, Calif (UR-Aided by tools of gigantic strength and. microscopic delicacy, the University Univer-sity of - California Testing Materials Mate-rials Laboratory has completed its tests on cement for Boulder Dam, after three years of research. No engineering proDiem Deiore in the history of man has involved the pouring of a monster block of cement such as Boulder Dam, university! uni-versity! engineers pointed out. When completed the block will be a slab two city blocks thick, requiring re-quiring enough concrete to pave a road 20 feet wide from San Francisco Fran-cisco to Chicago. The. tools with which the labor 1 t if" r iv PUT THESE I I WHtSKERS' c- . " j- - -: ;'i'v -3:!-is$' ' . . . . atory tested the materials were equally as gigantic. The monster "nut-cracker," largest in the world, squeezes tears out of granite gran-ite blocks and pulls apart eight-inch eight-inch steel bars line taffy. Only after thousands of tests of 93 vv commercial and laboratory-blended laboratory-blended cements did the university laboratory submit its preliminary report in March, 1933. From this report was selected the concrete which has been used thus ,far m the huge structure which will dam the Colorado River. Fallowing completion of the preliminary pre-liminary tests, research was continued for another 10 months to study the action of cement over long periods of- time. In the laboratory, scientific methods ' speeded up natural processes proc-esses so that the tests approxi-matted approxi-matted the destructive forces which the dam will be forced to withstand during its lifetime, it was 3aid. INTERESTIN G IF TRUE Howdy, folks! Touring by airplane air-plane Is safer than touring by auto in one way You don't get indigestion' from stopping at so many roadside hot dog stands. s. .. j . -r r 4 ' Li'l Gee Gee grows more ab-sentminded ab-sentminded every day. Yesterday she gave a bridge luncheon and dealt the sandwiches and ate the cards by mistake. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 1 With new sea serpents being reported re-ported every day, . this department rj has appointed 1 Mr. J. Gordon Gin its official Sea serpent editor. edi-tor. Mr. Gin is . well qualified for his new duties, having seen strange creatures crea-tures in his bed room pink elephants, cerise mice and two-legged giraffes almost every morning for the past five years. We are trying to find a good coffee substitute so we can give it up instead of giving up coffee. : MUSIC NOTE Sing loudest when things look critic. Is this a plea for more bathtub music ? Educators are expressing the fear that talking pictures will eventually make us all talk the same way. Well, why not ? We all say the same things. ABIGAIL APPLESAUCE SEZ: "Women usually compose their husband's hus-band's epitaph just to have th final say." The big deficit in the treasury may be overcome either by reducing reduc-ing appropriations or increasing taxes. And it won't take congress long to decide which to do. " OMIGOSH! (Society Item) The bride's slippers and nose were crimson shades which matched match-ed beautifully, v- s Js Sjc ,Wigg Do you ever play cards for big stakes ? VVagg No, I'm a vegetarian. . wf . The other night I wanted something some-thing to read so I went over to my next door neighbor's house and borrowed one of my books. ' t- ... jt Three steps and swing your partner. COAL THEFT CHARGED Al'Mossman of Provo was sen- , tenced to 15 days in the county jaii , weanesaay wnen he pleaded guilty to the theft of two sacks of coal from the Denver and Rio Grande Railway cars. Mossman was charged with theft of the coal along with a minor, who was turned over to the juvenile court. C. E. Howe vyas the complaining witness. 4& OUT OUR WAY HE'LL rilivi ON HIS LAUGH 1934 BY NCA SEKVICC. INC Washington Merry -Go-Round (Continued fromPage One) son's aim is not for the government govern-ment to rule business but for business to rule itself. TWO NRA's I The NRA, more than any other man's, is Johnson's creation. It graphically illustrates this underlying under-lying difference between the two men. To the president, the NRA is an instrumentality still .in the formative stiage by which the government, after shepherding and guiding industry into orderly and organized groups, will supervise super-vise and regulate it for its own, labor's, and above all the public's good. To Johnson, the NRA also is a shepherd and organizer. But not by government rule. He sees tle NRA as the initial step toward industrial "self-government." Once industry has .been rallied into orderly ranks he would have government bonds loosened. Except Ex-cept for an advisory representation, representa-tion, Johnson would then turn over entirely to industry the job of regulating itself. In recent months, Johnson's belief be-lief in the capacity of industry to regulate itself has suffered disheartening dis-heartening reverses- He has emerged from stormy . encounters with obdurate and defiant employers, em-ployers, big and small, spitting lire and damnation. But, intrinsically, he still holds to his theory. He believes, "industrial "in-dustrial self-government" should be given a further trial. BEHIND THE SCENES IN WASyNGIQN BY RODNEY DUTCHEH JMKA Service Staff Cerreapondent mASHINGTO N You'd be "amazed at the way Papa Roose-relt Roose-relt keeps his hands on things. Probably there nver has been such a one-man administration liere not in the sense that Roosevelt Roose-velt dominates Congress, as he Joes, but . in the actual full-time White House direction of the whole jxecutive branch. The telephone is F. D.'s chief weapon of control. He never gets i busy signal when he calls an aide, because there's a private wire running direct from the White House to the desk of every member mem-ber of the Executive Council. His favorite movement is a grab for the telephone. "What's this all about?" "Do fhls right away!" "I want a full report by tomorrow morn-ng." morn-ng." ThaVs the way the presidential presi-dential conversations run, ac' tording to the fellows oh the 9ther end of thex wire, who rften are amazed by the de- tailed nature of Roosevelt's questions. Then there are what Roosevelt calls "chits' brief penciled notes dashed off on a memorandum pad to subordinate officials. Fast stuff. The other day I saw six of them on a cabinet member's desk, all freshly received. . " TF you live in Washington, you can't help being interested in local issues. A White House press conference at which devaluation of the ' dollar is announced is likely to be marked by. Insistence of Washington reporters on knowing something about an appointment In the District of Columbia govern-U tnenL S-S-ST LES Pia A HOLE ALONCa SIDE O' Bid ICK, am'.vjhen hp aaup; fin I KIM IMAGINE IT, NAITHOUT DI66IN' AMV THINK YJE'RE. BORVIM' HOLES. X PONT HEFTUH DI6 ANV HOLESt AN' WATCH TH LOOK FACE VUH'LL yCWe .HEAD OFF, TO CalT -SENSE OF HUMOR. The president does not and never has. - r - NO FORGOTTEN MAN No matter wnat happens to the general, his ornate collection of cuss-words, his passion for berating Big Business, his thoughtfulness in reading daily to inmates of the children's ward in the hospital when he was ill, the clouds of glorious headlines which trailed ever in his wake, never will be forgotten even by a blase and semi-somnolent Washington. Wash-ington. The character of Hugh Johnson is a mass of contradictions. The personification of two-fisted, two-fisted, hell-roaring action, Johnson John-son also is a man of extraordin ary intellectual caliber, a genuine scholar, a lover of poetry and fine literature, an unusually tal cnted writer and stylist. Few nights go by that he does not read a few passages from the Bible before retiring. This is not because his is religious, but because be-cause of the joy and intellectual release he finds in the beauty and dramatic sweep of the scriptural language. Sports are too tepid for Johnson's John-son's dynamic, pragmatic well-springs. well-springs. He exhauts himself in work, more work. If there is nothing particular at Ihe moment to do, he buries himself in some brain-fagging tome. Reading is his major recreation. recre-ation. Another is reminiscing with old army cronies. His stories, stor-ies, rare and pungent, savoring of picket-lines and mess rooms, are about the "old' 'army, before the World war, with its Paul" Bun-yanesque Bun-yanesque figures of great liquid intake and fantastic adventures. Johnson's youthful soldiering days along the Mexican border are very dear to him. When in a mellow mood he speaks with .deep tenderness of the great chapperal ptains of the Rio Grande valley. Savs he: "When I get through with all WITH RODNEY DUTCHFR The New Deal big shots all have to regard themselves as citizens ot Washington. The Community Chest gets them, if nothing else does. Sometimes national issues merge with local issues. Thus, the federal salary cut is popular popu-lar with most of the country, since it cuts government ex- penses, but its proposed restoration restor-ation has been an exciting issue is-sue here, because it means so much to the merchants and the prosperity of this town, where so many U. 8. workers live. Andeven the pesky starlingf metamorphosed from a local lssut to a national issue when they left their age-old downtown quarters and lighted on the Capitol, there lo ruin the dignity of many distinguished distin-guished statesmen. Peanuts and Chile pHAIRMAN ROSS COLLINS of the House Military Affairs Committee Com-mittee is expert at tossing peanuts in the air and catching them in his mouth. Even during warm debate, he doesn't miss a peanut. . . . Secretary Frances Perkins Is a devil for employment figures .and her especial darling in the.Labor Department is the Bureau of.Labor Statistics. But during a conference she had to turn to Isidor Lubin,, chief of BLS, and ask in a memory lapse, "What's the name ot that thing of yours?" . . . Roosevelt still dotes on scrambled eggs. Borah adores good onion soup. Garner likes chile con came the way his wife cooks it. Wallace usually scorns meat, leaning tc milk, cheese, eggs, and. ice cream. Senator Cutting starts every day with a baked apple; (Copyright, ItSI. NEA Service. Inc.J BY WILLIAMS ME, NEITHER HEE-HEEr A JOKE. J.RWILLIAM3 T. M. REG. o. s. nr. orr. cs- this, that's where I'm going. Down there where the owls make love to the chickens, and it is starry, and quiet, and peaceful." Perhaps it is to the land of the owl and the chicken that General Johnson is going when he leaves the land of the Blue Eagle. (Copyright, 1934, by United Feature Snydicate, Inc.) arrieo HcELLIDTT O 933 NEA SSca, 1... CHAPTER XXXI pYPSY naj Just fallen Into a tossing troubled sleep after restlessly for bours. The- shrilling 9t the telephone startled her. bolt upright tnher. twin. bed. Across the way Tom slept soundlessly, one 'trm flung over his head. She scrambled for her mules, could not find them in the dark, rod rushed to silence the clangor-bus clangor-bus summons. There'was' something some-thing unearthly about being awakened awak-ened thus In the dead of night. Everything looked eerie In the darkness; the telephone table and stool were a dark blob against the moonlit wall. -Hello! Hello!" Her heart was thudding painfully. It might be a wrong number of course, it might be. No nse borrowing trouble. There was a faint buzzing at the other end. Then she heard her mother's voice, infinitely shaken. Infinitely weary. "Gypsy!" She said Yes!" quickly, pas-flonately. pas-flonately. as if by so doing she might take whatever trouble there was from the frail, sloping shoulders shoul-ders of the woman in Blue Hills. Something dreadful must be wrong, tier thoughts ran. Something dread Tul . . what? . . ."Gypsy, father's been hurt.- He's rery . . .She did not catch the rest. There was a cold sweat on her palms now, mi her -forehead. There was sick aess at the very core of her being. "Mother, how? Where H "A car; dont ask me now. But fcurry. Tom's there?" "Yes. yes, of course! Well come right away." She heard her mother sigh, as if In mortal sadness. Then the receiver re-ceiver clicked. She was alone In the vast stillness of the night. A light flashed on down the hall and Tom came ont of the bedroom, his dressing gown flung on over his pajamas, his hair rumpled small-boy small-boy fashion. Gypsy forgot in that moment all their difficulties and misunderstanding. He was again her prop and , stay, her beloved partner. "Daddy," she gulped. "He's hurt! It must be very serious. Mother says to come right away." CHE was clinging to him. sobbing as though her heart would break. But the moment ot weakness weak-ness was soon over. She began frenziedly to dress. ' ' ' " Tve got the car In town. That's lucky. Tom was already knotting his tie. . fully dressed.' He looked pale and serious. Oh, yon have?" She hadn't known this and it was significant. She and Tom hadnt been telling each other, things these d&va, Bu v l MAM HAHf I NUH COULD V 1 SCRAPE Hlff I V EYES OFF h Bright Moments In Great Lives Dr. Burton and Dr. Gage, prominent prom-inent ministers of two Congregational Congrega-tional churches "in Hartford, were excellent friends who enjoyed a joke .at each others' expense. Dr. Gage, recently returned from abroad, had been delivering a lecture lec-ture course on Old World subjects, one of which a lecture on Palestine Pales-tine had been consideredscT dull that many listenerss withdrew before be-fore it was ended. Not long afterward, after-ward, Dr. Gage's house was entered en-tered by a burglar, and Dr. Gage, in relating the experience to Dr. Burton, said: "Why, Doctor, I had him down flat on his back. I held him there; he couldn't move an inch." "Good!' said Dr. Burton, "but what a splendid opportunity that was to have delivered to him your lecture on Palestine!" Yager To Atterid U. S. Conference George A. Yager, director of the National Reemployment Service for Utah, left Wednesday evening to attend a conference for all state directors of the NRS to be held April 13, 14 and 15 at Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. The conference will review the achivements of the employment service up to the present, and will discuss problems of administration, organization and general policy. Means for establishing the NRS on a permanent basis as a coordinated coordin-ated national system of public employment em-ployment offices also may be considered. con-sidered. En route to Washington, Mr. Yager will visit model public employment em-ployment offices in Chicago, Cleveland and Philadelphia. Congress again has insisted on beingL,independent independent Democrat and independent Republican. Re-publican. " she didn't care now wny ne naa it nor how. All that .mattered was that it would get them to Jersey as quickly as possible. When they got down to the street, the sleeping baby on his father's shoulder, they feund broken clouds scudding over the facejfth3 moon- The day's rain, the weeRVrain. was quickly drying in the gutters as the west wind j blew through the narrow streets, j "Two o'clock." Tom offered, as the attendant wheeled the little car j out into the middle of the big ; empty concrete garage. It was cold, i dreary, desolate. Only this man, in his shabby blue overall, yawning j and blinking over a copy of a detec-. detec-. tive magazine, was visible. Gypsy snivereo and neid David s warm, limp softness close to her as Tom took his place beside the wheel. It was strange: it was all strange and infinitely terrifying ' They plunged into the maw of the Hudson Tunnels Tun-nels and flashed by solitary policemen police-men who gazed at them Incuriously. Once on the other side of the river. Tom made time. The roads were empty except for an occasional cruising taxL "Fifty minutes." Tom announced as they passed the first sign reading. read-ing. "Yon are now entering the incorporated village of Blue Hills: 20 miles an hour speed limit." Gypsy sartens, rigid, her fin gers curving around the baby's shawled form. Upper Dean street . . . home . . . with lights In all the windows and the doctor's coupe parked in the drive. She was in a fever of suspense. Her knees were shaking, her hands Icy. "Here, let me take him." Tom's capable hands took the bundle from her and she was free to rush' up the worn steps. ""LYTIE opened the door sound-lessly sound-lessly at their approach, an unfamiliar un-familiar Clytle in a black dress put on hastily, her woolly mop all awry. "How is he?" Gypsy -whispered. "The doctor say he very bad," Clytie said, rolling her eyes. "He say yon come right up." She reached for the baby and held him with a capable air. leaving Tom to follow Gypsy up the broad stairs. Everything in the big bouse was bushed. Beatrice and Bertram sat gravely on the window -seat at the head of the staircase. The girl twin had been crying. Her eyes were red-rimmed and the handkerchief she pressed to them was sodden: She whispered thafGypsy was to go straight up. Mother was waiting for her. The wide room with the old-fashioned old-fashioned rounded bay. the room Gypsy remembered from earliest girlhood as "mother's room," was still and orderly now. A twist of white paper shaded the lamp on the little cherry table beside the bed. Doctor Bannerman was there Mrs. Morell was there. A nurse was there. Gypsy, who had been frightened before, was transfixed at the sight ot the latter. If Daddy had a nurse he must Indeed be desperately UL The Morells never had had a trained nurse in the house except once for a day : and a night when Mother came home from the hospital. The doctor caught sight of Gypsy and Tom in the doorway and said something inaudible to Mrs. Morell. She lifted apathetic eyes, and followed fol-lowed him out into the halL He gave the girl a warning glance behind her mother's back. . Terfect quiet," he said. Gypsy thought, proudly that he was mistaken mis-taken If be thought she was going to make a fuss. Why. to make , a fuss no mt with. Daddy, desperately By Joseph Nathan Kane Author of "Famous First Facts" What city exhibited the first white bear in captivivy? Who built the-first rpid fire machine gun? Where was the first gunpowder gun-powder mill erected? Answers in next lssu CM ICAGO MAS THE (1 RST PLANETARIUM ERECTED IN THE US FIRST APPLES BROUGHT TO AMERICA FROM ENGLAND IN 1629 a a MAC DONALD WAS IfrE Fl RSf US. AMATEUR GOLF CHAMPION. 1895 5 Answers to Previous Questions A PLANETARIUM is a German invention by which the movements move-ments and positions of the stars -and planejts. in relation to the earth, are reproduced on a small scale. The Chicago planetarium was opened May 10. 1930. and cost $1,000,000. MacDonald won the first amateur golf championship champion-ship at the Newport. Tt. I.. Golf Club, in a field of 32 entries. John Winthrop. colonial Rover-nor Rover-nor of Massachusetts, imported the first apples to the United States. i i, . , in, wuuiu mj me worst tninjjjnav could happen! "Hbw did it . . .r aira? Moreii sat down in the low chair beside the -machine In the sewing room. It was untidy, lit- tered with scraps of chintz. There were white, threads all over the shabby Axmlnster carpet. No one noticed or cared. "He went to a board meeting the town board." Mrs. Morell said lifelessly. She had been weeping but she was beyond tears now. She spoke mechanically, as though she had been all over this' ground before. be-fore. "He usually gets home before 11. but when he didn't tonight I wasn't worried.. 1 thought he'd been delayed. It seems be was alone on the River road. ThlTrains had washed away some of the shoulder. He must have been turning turn-ing out to avoid someone. You know Daddy never did like driving at night." she interpolated pathet-- ically. Theysay It happened at 10:30. The car clock stopped then. And they didn't find him the policeman didn't until he made his rounds at quarter past 1. They 1 brought him home Her eyes be- t gan to fill again and she shook her head, unable to go on. V p YPSY'S eyes sought the doctor's. "Concussion." he said briefly. ' "He hasn't regained consciousness." "If I might see you for a moment." doctor?" The nurse was In the doorway and Gypsy hated her. her " self-possession, her almost 6millng , calm, her assurance. If Daddy wptp going td die . . . if Daddy were going to die ... Mrs. Morell started up. "He's not I to be left alone " she said fieroel ' "I told her particularly he was not to be left alone." She went back to the sickroom and after an instant A the crackling figure of the nurse followed, leaving Gypsy free to con-.fer con-.fer with the physician. "You can tell me the truth.- she begged. I "It's very grave. It may be . . ."X ne nesitatea on ifia wnrrio -tt be a matter of hours. That's why I suggested you should come." "But can't we do something get somebody? Specialists . . anything?"- , - - -,. "I've already phoned Martlneau . . . Dr. Henle Martlneau at Newark." New-ark." he told her. "He's a brain man. Hell be here presently. II he lasts until morning . . .- ; Gypsy paled at the words. How cold and unfeeling all these people were! - Why. they, couldn't let Daddy die like this. It .wasn't ralr. He had watched over them all. protected pro-tected them, and .now they were letting him slip away without trying try-ing to keep him. ' ; "You've got to get him." she said fiercely. "Tom could go and bring him." .r "My dear child, everything win be dotfS. Rest assured of that. But we can't perform miracles." Tom put an arm around herfto steady her. Below stairs they could hear Clytle murmuring to the child who had wakened now. Otherwise the house was deadly stilt. Tm frightened," Gypsy Nwhlnv pered when she and .-, Tom .. were alone again In the halL "I'm itrlght- eneo. eii me wnat to do. Tommy!" It was like being a child again, alone in the , dark, desperately afraid. She went back Into the; room where the sick man lay. motionless. motion-less. In the shaded light.' At least " she could be near could be i on ' - - UUVCUVf able miracle!) -were to open hi ' tired eyes '. - . " r (To'B Continued) |